Boltless rail joint and fish-plate.



No. 694,086. Patented Feb. 25, I902. J. M06. BEBUUT.

BOLTLESS RAIL JOINT rm FISH PLATE:

(Application filed. may 22, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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JAMES MCCONNELL BEBOUT, OF MADISON, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- I-IALF TO HENRY G. POLLOOK, OF MADISON, INDIANA.

BOLTLESS RAIL JOINT AND FISH-PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 694,086, dated February 25, 1902.

Application filed May 22. 1901. Serial No. 61,445. (No model.)

at Madison, in the county of Jefferson and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boltless Rail Joints and Fish-Plates; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention; such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain improvements in railroad-rail equipments, especially fish-plates. It provides principally for ,dispensing with the use of bolts or like fastenings for connecting the parts together and in simplifying construction, lessening the number of parts, and cheapening the manufacture thereof.

Itconsists of the detailed construction,combination, and arrangement of the parts, substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed, and pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a side View thereof, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same.

Latitude is allowed herein as to details, as they may be changed or varied at will without departing from the spirit of my invention and the same remain intact and be protected.

In carrying out my invention I construct or form the rail-sections 1 with lateral bottom edge flanges 2, preferably extending therefrom upward and outward at the angle shown. Incidentally these flanges may be produced with notches or recesses 3 to receive the spikes or fastenings for securing the rail-sections to the ties.

The fish-plates 4, adapted, of course, to fit flush against the sides of the rail-sections, have formed upon their inner sides, near the lower edges, longitudinal sockets or channels 5, inclined upward and outward to correspond with the angle of inclination of theflanges 2 of the rail-sections 1, designed to be inserted therein. These fish-plates also have in their outer surfaces, at the bottom edges, notches or recesses 6 to receive fastenings or spikes for securing said fish-plates to the ties. Said rail-sections have undercut flanged treads to receive upward and inward inclined or beveled top edges of the fish-plates, as shown more particularly in Fig. 2, thus constituting with the bottoin edge flanges and the sockets of the fish-plates a dovetailed groove-andsocket connection between said fishplates and rail-sections. In positioning the parts the fish-plates are disposed endwise to the railsections, the sockets or channels 5 of said fishplates being registered with and caused to re ceive the flanges 2 of said rail-sections and the fish-plates slipped upon the rail-sections, thus uniting the same, the fish-plates then being spiked or secured in place upon the ties.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A railroad-rail fish-plate having an upward and inward inclined socket or channel in its inner side, near the bottom edge and adapted to receive oppositely-arranged bottom edge flanges of the rail-sections, substantially as set forth.

2. The fish-plates having upward and inward inclined sockets or channels in their inner sides, near the bottom edges, and upward and inward inclined top edges, in combination with a rail-section having upward and outward inclined bottom edge lateral flanges and undercuttread-flanges, receiving said top edges of the fish-plates, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES MCOONNELL BEBOUT.

\Vitnesses:

WARREN ROBERTS, SOPHIE E. PoLLooK. 

